The Center for Inquiry today joined more than two dozen advocacy organizations in writing leadership of the House Committee on Appropriations to voice opposition to policy riders to the Fiscal Year 2017 appropriations bills that would undermine women's access to health care while purporting to protect religious liberty.

The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a bill to amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 that includes language providing explicit protections for the rights of non-theists, atheists, and humanists.

The Center for Inquiry has joined 82 partners in the Coalition Against Religious Discrimination in sending a letter to the Senate Committee on Armed Services that voices strong opposition to any amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2017, S. 2814, that would sanction taxpayer-funded employment discrimination.

The Center for Inquiry today joined a group of sixteen human rights organizations in issuing a statement calling for the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry by the United Nations Human Rights Council into the murders of at least nine writers, bloggers, publishers, academics, and activists in Bangladesh since February 2015, including four in the last month alone.

Welcome to the Office of Public Policy's monthly Advocacy Update. The Office of Public Policy is the Washington, D.C. political arm of the Center for Inquiry. Our mandate is to advocate for reason, science, and secular values at all levels of government — statehouses, Congress, the Administration, and the United Nations.